MGGPOD: A Monte Carlo Suite for Gamma-Ray Astronomy - Version 1.1

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Sep 2006

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American Astronomical Society, HEAD meeting #9, #18.57; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 38, p.391

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Intense and complex instrumental backgrounds, against which the much smaller signals from celestial sources have to be discerned, are a notorious problem for low and intermediate energy gamma-ray astronomy. Therefore a detailed qualitative and quantitative understanding of instrumental line and continuum backgrounds is crucial for most stages of gamma-ray astronomy missions, ranging from the design and development of new instrumentation through performance prediction to data reduction.
We announce the forthcoming public release of Version 1.1 of MGGPOD, a user-friendly suite of Monte Carlo codes built around the widely used GEANT (Version 3.21) package, to simulate ab initio the physical processes relevant for the production of instrumental backgrounds. These include the build-up and delayed decay of radioactive isotopes as well as the prompt de-excitation of excited nuclei, both of which give rise to a plethora of instrumental gamma-ray background lines in addition to continuum backgrounds. Improvements implemented in Version 1.1 of the proven MGGPOD Monte Carlo suite include: additional beam geometry options, capability of modelling polarized photons, additional output formats suitable for event reconstruction algorithms, improved neutron interaction cross sections, and improved treatment of the radioactive decay of isomeric nuclear states.
The MGGPOD package and documentation are publicly available for download from http://sigma-2.cesr.fr/spi/MGGPOD/.

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